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shibani: starbucks getting pretty creative on the fiscal cliff debate. a message to lawmakers one cup at a time. you don't want to miss that story in today's speed read. shibani: time now for a quick speed read of some of the day's other headlines, five stories, one minute. here i go. first up, starbucks is making a political push on the fiscal cliff debate. ceo howard schultz is urging workers in the d.c. area write, come home together, on customers cups tomorrow and friday. >>> growth in u.s. holiday retail sales is the weakest it's been in four years. a new report said sales in the two months leading up to christmas increase ad paltry 0.7% versus the expect growth rate of 3 to 4%. >>> and samsung is seeking a ban on import and sale of ericson products in u.s. following the swedish mobile giant attempt to block the import of samsung devices earlier this month. samsung is accusing ericson of breaching seven different patents. >>> a report from the u.s. energy department says opec will rake in a record $1.05 trillion this year. in net oil export revenue.
shibani: starbucks getting pretty creative on the fiscal cliff debate. a message to lawmakers one cup at a time. you don't want to miss that story in today's speed read. shibani: time now for a quick speed read of some of the day's other headlines, five stories, one minute. here i go. first up, starbucks is making a political push on the fiscal cliff debate. ceo howard schultz is urging workers in the d.c. area write, come home together, on customers cups tomorrow and friday. >>>...
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tracy: that is good news. let's go glass half-full. they fix this ink it. fiscal cliff solved. housing market, what, what's the big thing that you think 2013 will bring? it is the year of rental. of new construction. what should we expect to see if all goes well in washington? >> what we should expect to see is a continuation of the recovery which started this past year. you just reported that house prices are up about 4%. i'm expecting that house prices in 2013 will be up 3 to 4%. that is actually, a nice solid, steady recovery. you don't want it taking off and having increases of eight, 10, 15% because they're not sustainable. the best we can hope for is a good solid recovery. have some real positives. fundamentals are strong. house prices are down. affordability is up. rents, it cost less to own a house than to rent. the downside is we've got the government is continuing to distort the housing market and all markets for that matter and that potentially raises some red flags down the road. >> actually said that, from your notes, sewing the seeds of future disaster as long as
tracy: that is good news. let's go glass half-full. they fix this ink it. fiscal cliff solved. housing market, what, what's the big thing that you think 2013 will bring? it is the year of rental. of new construction. what should we expect to see if all goes well in washington? >> what we should expect to see is a continuation of the recovery which started this past year. you just reported that house prices are up about 4%. i'm expecting that house prices in 2013 will be up 3 to 4%. that...
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host: the housing outlook for 2013 -- two million net new jobs without going over the fiscal cliff. hudson, florida, gene. caller: happy new year's and happy holidays. i have a mortgage that is under water. it is a private mortgage company. i do not qualify for the refinance. president obama said he was going to try to get some legislation through for all homeowners under water that's been paying their mortgage on time and i'm one of those millions of people that are in the situation. i cannot refinance because my bank is not take fannie mae or freddie mac banks. if you think that legislation will be approved in 2013. guest: there is bipartisan support for that legislation. we hope it gets passed in early 2013. the president has indicated he wants to sign it. these are people that have been making payments on time during the difficult economic conditions. to say banks right now have huge profits. 7% mortgage rates -- these are bonus profits for the banks. it would make perfect sense and rewarding those people who have been responsible. host: another call from florida. this one in mi
host: the housing outlook for 2013 -- two million net new jobs without going over the fiscal cliff. hudson, florida, gene. caller: happy new year's and happy holidays. i have a mortgage that is under water. it is a private mortgage company. i do not qualify for the refinance. president obama said he was going to try to get some legislation through for all homeowners under water that's been paying their mortgage on time and i'm one of those millions of people that are in the situation. i cannot...
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host: the housing outlook for 2013 -- two million net new jobs without going over the fiscal cliff. hudson, florida, gene. caller: happy new year's and happy holidays. i have a mortgage that is under water. it is a private mortgage company. i do not qualify for the refinance. president obama said he was going to try to get some legislation through for all homeowners under water that's been paying their mortgage on time and i'm one of those millions of people that are in the situation. i cannot refinance because my bank is not take fannie mae or freddie mac banks. if you think that legislation will be approved in 2013. guest: there is bipartisan support for that legislation. we hope it gets passed in early 2013. the president has indicated he wants to sign it. these are people that have been making payments on time during the difficult economic conditions. to say banks right now have huge profits. 7% mortgage rates -- these are bonus profits for the banks. it would make perfect sense and rewarding those people who have been responsible. host: another call from florida. this one in mi
host: the housing outlook for 2013 -- two million net new jobs without going over the fiscal cliff. hudson, florida, gene. caller: happy new year's and happy holidays. i have a mortgage that is under water. it is a private mortgage company. i do not qualify for the refinance. president obama said he was going to try to get some legislation through for all homeowners under water that's been paying their mortgage on time and i'm one of those millions of people that are in the situation. i cannot...
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basically blaming the republicans for no deal on the fiscal cliff. a news alert for you now. a new number from apple today showing exactly what tim cook made this year. he brought in $4.17 million that includes his base pay and incentives and that is down 99% from the $370 million team made last year. apple chief didn't get any stock awards this year, apple languishing above $500 a share. please check out this video, a real life iron man, and exoskeleton that gives that person, paralyzed people the ability to walk. a lot is banked on military research. dr. mark siegel is here with the story. i want to see if i have got this right. >> you always have it right. stuart: an exoskeleton is essentially a robot. a paralyzed person wears this robot, there's a backpack of some sort. >> not exactly. this is a big game change iran's big business. these things are running between one hundred and 1 forty thousand dollars. there are 30 run the country, 30 centers run the country and within a year or two they are going to be in the home and that is going to be huge. they allow a paralyzed p
basically blaming the republicans for no deal on the fiscal cliff. a news alert for you now. a new number from apple today showing exactly what tim cook made this year. he brought in $4.17 million that includes his base pay and incentives and that is down 99% from the $370 million team made last year. apple chief didn't get any stock awards this year, apple languishing above $500 a share. please check out this video, a real life iron man, and exoskeleton that gives that person, paralyzed people...
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we will see if there is a new word there about the fiscal cliff. we found some more winners on the nasdaq. ♪ with fidelity's new options platform, we've completely integrated evy step of the process, making it easier to try filters and strategies... to get a list of equity option.. evaluate them with our p&l calculator... and execute faster with our more intuitive trade ticket. i'm greg stevens and i helped create fidelity's options platform. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. dagen: japan's new prime minister vowing to tighten ties with the u.s. as he works to revive the economy. some worry he will pay little attention to funds needed for growth. how does that sound familiar. the japanese market light to the news. the nikkei trading higher today. let's take a look at the ten year treasury. a gauge of how much work the federal reserve is doing by those very treasuries. it is down a little bit today. four more on that, let's bring in chris aarons from ubs. fisc
we will see if there is a new word there about the fiscal cliff. we found some more winners on the nasdaq. ♪ with fidelity's new options platform, we've completely integrated evy step of the process, making it easier to try filters and strategies... to get a list of equity option.. evaluate them with our p&l calculator... and execute faster with our more intuitive trade ticket. i'm greg stevens and i helped create fidelity's options platform. it's one more innovative reason serious...
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tonight, new information showing that mess is worse than we thought. we got the numbers to prove it to you. >> anything dealing with social security ought to be off the table. >> what we should not be doing right now is slash the benefits of social security. >> we should take social security off the table for the current phy fiscal cliff. >> do not cut social security. tom: many democrats pushing to keep social security off of the table in debt talks, we learn that the program is $48 billion in the hole for 2012, and small business authority barry sloan said that the entitlement programs are what got this country in this mess in the first place. i don't think that people pay attention to that. in the greenspan era they bumped up payroll taxes for excess money going in. about this is first time there are fewer people putting in than taking out. so government has to write a check. >> it is unfortunate, the lockbox was raided. there is nothing wrong with entitlement programs, but it is the growth of those programs that are problematic. with respect to soc
tonight, new information showing that mess is worse than we thought. we got the numbers to prove it to you. >> anything dealing with social security ought to be off the table. >> what we should not be doing right now is slash the benefits of social security. >> we should take social security off the table for the current phy fiscal cliff. >> do not cut social security. tom: many democrats pushing to keep social security off of the table in debt talks, we learn that the...
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tonight, new information showing that mess is worse than we thought. we got t want to know what i did in the last five hours? i played a rnd of golf. then i read a book while teaching myself how to play guitar; ran n miles while knitting myself a sweater; jumped out of a plane. finally, i became a ping pong master while recording my debut album. how you ask? with 5-hour energy. i get hours of energy now -- no crash later. wait to see the next five hours. ♪ music kids will spend 15 minutes watching online videos like this one. brushing for two minutes now, can save your child from severe tooth pain later. two minutes twice a day. they have the time. >> anything dealing with social security ought to be off the table. >> what we should not be doing right now is slash the benefits of social security. >> we should take social security off the table for the current phy fiscal cliff. >> do not cut social security. tom: many democrats pushing to keep social security off of the table in debt talks, we learn that the program is $48 billion in the hole for 2012
tonight, new information showing that mess is worse than we thought. we got t want to know what i did in the last five hours? i played a rnd of golf. then i read a book while teaching myself how to play guitar; ran n miles while knitting myself a sweater; jumped out of a plane. finally, i became a ping pong master while recording my debut album. how you ask? with 5-hour energy. i get hours of energy now -- no crash later. wait to see the next five hours. ♪ music kids will spend 15 minutes...
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kelly: this is daunting task facing congress to avert the so-called fiscal cliff that will set into motion more than $600 billion in drastic and draconian allic tax hikes and spending cuts. that will cause a lot of pain for all americans and does congress have enough time to act on this? >> they do. you know it will be very close and it may in fact go beyond the deadline per se although people are thinking at the moment it is possible to get something done by the end of this week. the key here, kelly, is the senate. we have been so focused on the house, speaker boehner, plan. about, plan b falling apart. now speaker boehner is pointing towards the senate and the white house is pointing towards the senate as a place where we might get bipartisan cooperation. they think they have 10 republican votes for some kind of a plan that the president would propose that democrats in republicans in the senate could get together on and then ask speaker boehner to have a vote on it in the house. that could be a problem for speaker boehner because he could get a bill passed with that splits his republican
kelly: this is daunting task facing congress to avert the so-called fiscal cliff that will set into motion more than $600 billion in drastic and draconian allic tax hikes and spending cuts. that will cause a lot of pain for all americans and does congress have enough time to act on this? >> they do. you know it will be very close and it may in fact go beyond the deadline per se although people are thinking at the moment it is possible to get something done by the end of this week. the key...
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there's no deal pending on the table here on the fiscal cliff and we're creeping up here on new year's eve. and then yesterday, as you just mentioned, treasury secretary tim geithner really upped the ante in dramatic stakes in the fiscal cliff end game by saying that the united states is going to hit its borrowing limit on monday. now he said the treasury can put in place some extraordinary measures and it has some wiggle room there but he said that the doubt and uncertainty over the fiscal cliff really clouds the prospect of exactly when the united states is going to hit its debt ceiling, statutory borrowing limit. so, that all adds a whole element of drama to all this. and it's really not clear, guys, at this point, how this thing is going to get resolved. but the house has said that it would like the senate now to go first after the house had been taking the lead in negotiations earlier on. and they say they stand ready to vote, at least, on whatever it is that the democratic controlled senate will pass. it's not clear, however, that anything that could pass the senate could also pa
there's no deal pending on the table here on the fiscal cliff and we're creeping up here on new year's eve. and then yesterday, as you just mentioned, treasury secretary tim geithner really upped the ante in dramatic stakes in the fiscal cliff end game by saying that the united states is going to hit its borrowing limit on monday. now he said the treasury can put in place some extraordinary measures and it has some wiggle room there but he said that the doubt and uncertainty over the fiscal...
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crosses the fiscal cliff. joining us now on set, eric dinallo e, the former new york state insurance superintendent. you have lots of deficit perspectives on this, perhaps from the insurance sort of angle. you were saying during the commercial break, you have a political view on this as well. >> i'm now convinced, this is very very cynical. it's easier for politicians who signed up on that pledge, they can go to their voters and say i didn't vote for a tax increase, i voted for a tax increase. if they go in over the cliff, it comes in automatically. >> the public is that dumb in 2014 people running campaign commercials? >> the headlines are simple, did not vote for a tax hike, tax increase and people couldn't get their house in order and that's the story and how simple sometimes politics are what you can say with a straight face versus not. >> you were here three or four weeks ago talking about insurance implications for insurance companies. and where we are now, insurance companies, will this change their bus
crosses the fiscal cliff. joining us now on set, eric dinallo e, the former new york state insurance superintendent. you have lots of deficit perspectives on this, perhaps from the insurance sort of angle. you were saying during the commercial break, you have a political view on this as well. >> i'm now convinced, this is very very cynical. it's easier for politicians who signed up on that pledge, they can go to their voters and say i didn't vote for a tax increase, i voted for a tax...
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the question is, could it be too late to avoid the fiscal cliff? we'll look into that, a look at the new taxes you could be paying next week. >> clayton: after getting caught an explosion in iraq he was told he would never walk again. now this marine is climbing and will join us live with his incredible story. "fox & friends" hour three begins right now. er. >> clayton: welcome t. hello, hello. >> juliet: this is really a -- i guess this the best set we've ever had nor me. >> clayton: so beautiful. >> kelly: we hope steve, brian and gretchen are enjoying time off. >> clayton: and kelly wright, juliet and clayton in this morning. noise holiday and i'm looking forward to split up 'cause i get the birthday. subtle way to drop a hint. >> juliet: you're working new year's day? >> clayton: yeah, i'll be here. happy new year. >> kelly: and merry christmas if we got to you too late. we're getting a look at president obama who did enjoy a good christmas with his family in hawaii. he's boarding air force one and leaving hawaii. the president is in the air ri
the question is, could it be too late to avoid the fiscal cliff? we'll look into that, a look at the new taxes you could be paying next week. >> clayton: after getting caught an explosion in iraq he was told he would never walk again. now this marine is climbing and will join us live with his incredible story. "fox & friends" hour three begins right now. er. >> clayton: welcome t. hello, hello. >> juliet: this is really a -- i guess this the best set we've ever...
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cliff. peter doocy is live with more on the vacation cutting his vacation short. >> the president will get one more full day of sunshine in hawaii befored hading back to dc. air force one is expected to leave 10:00 p.m. where he is. 3:00 a.m. eastern time and that will get him back thursday morning where he & and speaker boehner need to figure out how to bridge a 400 million dollar gap in their positions to avoid the fiscal cliff. the last time we heard from the president, he thought a break would benefit and bring lawmakers together. to make a difference >> everybody can cool off and drink egg nogand have christmas cookies and sing christmas carrolls and enjoy the company of loved ones and ask every member of congress when they are back home to think about that. think . obligations of people who cent us here. >> speaker boehner is expected to return to dc any time he with drew the republican plan b deal that extends tax cuts to everyone under millionaire. he was confident that the cliff cou
cliff. peter doocy is live with more on the vacation cutting his vacation short. >> the president will get one more full day of sunshine in hawaii befored hading back to dc. air force one is expected to leave 10:00 p.m. where he is. 3:00 a.m. eastern time and that will get him back thursday morning where he & and speaker boehner need to figure out how to bridge a 400 million dollar gap in their positions to avoid the fiscal cliff. the last time we heard from the president, he thought...